"what-"
"It's two o'clock in the afternoon, right?" Lin Huai looked at his watch, "I announce that from now on, you are on vacation."
He overbearingly and capriciously announced the liberation of this man. Then, he turned around and said, "Let's go?"
"But… "
"Why, don't you dare?" Lin Huai smiled, "Xu Chi, you coward."
Lin Huai spoke provocatively, and Xu Chi, who had always been indifferent, became a little bit more motivated by this. He overtook the man in front.
The two did not walk out through the main entrance, because Lin Huai said that he wanted to pursue excitement. He came to a low wall at one end and climbed over the wall easily.
He landed lightly, with ease, like a bad boy who's done it countless times. Then, he said to Xu Chi, "Come down."
"I… "
"Come down, I'll catch you."
With Lin Huai's encouragement, Xu Chi also climbed up the low wall. He stood on the low wall, closed his eyes, and jumped down with a hard heart.
After he landed and stood firmly, Lin Huai smiled again: "Actually, it's not that difficult. Is it?"
"Go." He shook the banknotes in his hand, "Today we will spend all the money."
They wandered around the center of Yangshui City. Lin Huai first bought a cup of milk tea for each of them, and after taking two sips, he changed to another cup, and conveniently stuffed the original cup into the trash can.
Then, he took the other party to a clothing store, bought him a windbreaker, shirt and trousers forcibly, and after watching the other party put it on, he put on a pair of black-rimmed glasses for the other party.
They went to a movie theater which, unfortunately, perhaps barring some glitch, only had movies from three years ago. After going to the cinema, Lin Huai took him to dinner, and then led him to the bookstore, where he bought a bunch of mystery novels.
Finally, he bought a briefcase and took the other party to a newspaper office.
"The top of the building of this newspaper is the highest place in the city. Standing there overlooking the whole city." Lin Huai said, "Do you want to take a look?"
Xu Chi was stunned.
There was a crackling sound coming from the depths of his heart. He used all his rationality to tell himself not to move, but the other party said, "Let's go, let's take the elevator."
After speaking, he walked to the front.
He didn't wait for Xu Chi to follow, as if he didn't care about it. He wanted to bring people out to do whatever he wanted, so he did it, and it had nothing to do with him whether others would accept it or not.
However, Xu Chi still followed him.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the twilight was deep, and many office workers coming and going came out of the building. Lin Huai led him through a glass door, and said casually, "Look, you look a lot like them, don't you?"
Xu Chi looked at himself in the glass door and was stunned.
After being tossed by Lin Huai all afternoon, he looked a lot more mature, well dressed, and almost blended in with the office workers around him. Lin Huai laughed again, and said, "This is what you will look like when you grow up in five years. Have you written it in your weekly diary? You want to be a newspaper reporter, and you want to interview a certain writer after he becomes famous. .Here is the largest newspaper office in Yangshui City."
Xu Chi didn't speak for a long time, and after a while, he also smiled in a daze.
"Yes..." he said slowly, "ah."
"Oh, no, I'm not quite accurate." Lin Huai raised her bangs, "After five years, your hairline will be higher than mine."
Xu Chi: ...
Lin Huai: "Learning makes one grow old."
Xu Chi: ...
Lin Huai: "Hee hee."
They hid from the security guards and walked all the way to the rooftop.
It's a pity that the weather is not beautiful.
Xu Chi: "The rooftop is locked."
Lin Huai reached out and broke off the copper lock on the iron door, then turned to look at him: "No."
Xu Chi: "...it was really locked just now."
Lin Huai said, "Really not."
The two went up to the roof. It was evening, and the entire sky was dyed a beautiful orange-red by the setting sun. Big fire clouds bloom in the clear sky.
And the whole city glowing with lights was trampled under their feet.
Beautiful, prosperous, and full of traffic.
Lin Huai leaned on the railing and said briskly, "Seeing such clouds, it must be a good day tomorrow."
Xu Chi was beside him and said softly, "Yes."
"This is a beautiful world, isn't it? I read a book, which said that young people in their teens still have many dreams, many futures and many possibilities." He didn't look back, just said to himself Expressing emotion in the same language, "...Xu Chi, which do you think is more important, the future or the past?"
He suddenly asked such a question. Xu Chi was silent for a while, then said, "I don't know."
"It's okay if you don't know, young people still have a lot of time to find the answer." Lin Huai pulled the railing and leaned back, "Speaking of which, there is a piece of railing missing..."
"You speak as if you are very old..."
"Xu Chi." Lin Huai said suddenly, "Is that friend you mentioned earlier Yan Xi?"
"...Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
"Because I want to know." Lin Huai pulled the railing and looked up at him, "Isn't it normal for a teacher to want to know his students?"
Xu Chi was silent for a long time.
"Tell me." Lin Huai looked at him with eyes that reflected the burning clouds, "You are already an adult. Well, at least, you have been dressed as an adult."
Xu Chi looked at the sunset in the distance and didn't speak for a long time. It wasn't until the end that he said: "Yan Xi and I became friends on such an evening. At that time, my parents had just divorced, and no one wanted me. I wanted to... commit suicide."
"That day was the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, and everyone left. I came to the roof of the school alone, leaning on the railing, thinking about what would happen if I jumped off. Then I thought, I have never left since I was a child. Go out through Yangshui City to have a look, isn't it a pity to die here? Then he appeared."
"He was a very strange person. He asked me behind my back: 'I write novels, do you like reading novels? Would you like to come and see my novels?'"
"He said he wanted to be Keigo Higashino in the future. Actually, I like Oichi better. He is really a strange person. He wrote a detective novel called "Seven Mysteries of Campus", and the crime method set in it is really bad It’s clear, none of them can be established.”
"Later I went to class B, and he stayed in class C. In fact, I missed a big problem... He said he would catch up with me earlier... Come to find me in class B. Later, class C changed the teacher. I Immersed in the study of class b, I haven't taken care of him for a long time."
"I invited him over for my birthday and he didn't come. I didn't know he was locked up at the house...I was so angry and stayed away from him."
"The last call before his death was to me. I didn't answer it and hung up. He came to school the next day...he was already dead. It's only natural that he would hate me and want to kill me. .”
Xu Chi said in a low voice. His voice became weaker and weaker as he got to the end, and gradually disappeared on the rooftop with the evening wind.
They were silent for a long time, neither of them spoke.
"It's like this... That's really an enviable friendship." Lin Huai said.
"I don't know if I'm still his friend now, maybe not. I have only known him for a few months, but he and Tang Feng have known each other for more than ten years. Tang Feng is his best friend, Me and him, it's just a few months."
"Maybe. But friends can't be measured by time." Lin Huai gave him a deep look, "I already know your answer."
"… what?"
"Young people are relatively lacking in love. It's normal to take friendship between the same sex very seriously, but I can't tell whether you are friendship or missed love..."
"..."
Xu Chi was a little angry. Then Lin Huai smiled.
He took out some steel coins from his pocket. More than 5,000 yuan was spent by him in one afternoon, leaving only a few steel coins. He pulled one out, tossed it up, into the air.
He held the falling coin in his palm and said to Xu Chi, "Let's make a bet?"
"What bet?"
"If this coin is positive, you have to promise me and do something for me," he said.
Xu Chi hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth.
He didn't know why Lin Huai made this request to him, but this feeling was not bad.
"it is good."
He said in a low voice.
Lin Huai slowly moved his hand away, and the coin appeared on the back of his hand.
is the opposite.
"Ah, it's the opposite."
He said indifferently, turned over his hand, and let the coin fall to the roof. Then, he took out a second coin: "Try again."
Xu Chi: ...
The second coin is still tails. He dropped this coin in the same manner and replaced it with a third.
Then, there's the fourth.
As the sun set, Xu Chi could overlook this vast and beautiful city from the high rooftop.
In the city there are cinemas visited in the afternoon.
There are clothing stores that sell trench coats.
With this tall, overlooking everything...
Once in his future plan...
Newspaper building.
And the person behind him is still trying again and again.
He flipped the coin over and over and got tails over and over again, but he...
Still trying.
Why
Why
"The last coin." He heard Lin Huai's voice, "Try one last time."
The evening wind blew his eyes, and his eyes shed tears following the flow of traffic lights.
"Heads." Lin Huai said behind him, "I won."
"Good luck." Xu Chi said.
"No, it's not my luck." Lin Huai smiled, "You let me win."
In the setting sun, the corners of his clothes fluttered in the wind. The young man who was so weak that he seemed to be blown down by the wind handed the coin to Xu Chi.
"One thing." He said with a smile, "you remember it."
Four days later, early in the morning.
As soon as Yu Xingjian woke up, he heard a piece of news that made him despair.
Another third-year class C student died last night in the cafeteria.
The person who died was Feng Zilu, the class monitor he kissed and his most trusted classmate.
In terms of managing the class atmosphere, Feng Zilu contributed a lot. He led many classmates, led the progress of the class, and helped correct Yan Xi's actions. He also overturned Yan Xi's dinner plate many times, forcing him to eat in the toilet.
Yu Xingjian no longer wanted to hear about the cause of Feng Zilu's death. He only knew that if this continued, he would be the one who died.
It's fucking haunted!
He has made up his mind to drive away from this school, Minghua, Yangshui, to other places...to a place where he cannot be caught up.
Yan Xi, Yan Xi... This name almost became his nightmare. The moment he stepped into Minghua Middle School full of disappointment and ambition, the moment he ordered Yan Xi to wipe off the color on the ground with his sleeve, he never thought about who he is now, just hearing this name makes his whole body chill !
The principal was away in the morning, so he prepared his resignation letter, which he could only submit in the afternoon. He no longer wants this month's salary or compensation, he just wants to get out of here quickly!
But in the afternoon, just as he stepped out of the principal's office, another nightmare-like person appeared in front of him.
Black suit, black hair, black eyes, handsome with a bit of evil...
Lin Huai!
Lin Huai stared at him, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Oh? Teacher Yu Xingjian is resigning so soon?"
If Yan Xi was the source of his failure in education, then Lin Huai was undoubtedly the one who dealt him the final blow. Yan Xi proved his failure in educating people, while Lin Huai hit him hard in teaching. He had never seen a single person who, in just two weeks, improved the grades of what was considered the worst class and, at the same time, gained the love of an entire class.
Lin Huai was simply his nightmare. Since Lin Huai's arrival, his proud grades have been hit, and the students who once regarded him as gods have also begun to rebel. So much so that when he saw Lin Huai now, his scalp tightened, and he looked at him very warily: "What are you doing here?"
Lin Huai smiled lightly and parted her lips.
"Of course I came to invite Teacher Yu to go to the bathroom together."
After speaking, he took Yu Xingjian's hand, and dragged him to follow him in the posture of a high school girl inviting her companion to go to the toilet together. Among adults, Yu Xingjian is also a person who knows how to keep fit and exercise himself, but he was held by those pair of iron-like hands, and he couldn't break free for a while.
He was dragged by Lin Huai from the principal's office all the way to the toilet on the fourth floor of the fourth teaching building. Passing many students, they whispered behind his back:
"Speaking of which, why does Teacher Lin have such a good relationship with Teacher Yu..."
"What are they doing..."
"I don't know why, but I always feel a little gay..."
Cold sweat ran down Yu Xingjian's forehead. For some reason, he couldn't speak at all, and he couldn't make a sound from his throat. After arriving at the toilet on the fourth floor of the fourth teaching building, Lin Huai threw him into the men's toilet like trash: "Go in."
The fourth teaching building is also called the laboratory building, which is rarely visited by people. Now it is empty inside. Yu Xingjian was thrown into the toilet by him and rolled on the smooth tiles. Before he had time to stand up, he heard the devil's voice again: "Sorry, I threw it wrong."
As he said that, he was lifted up again by that person. The man who weighed 180 jin was lifted lightly and deftly like a plastic bag. The next moment, he was thrown onto the tiles on the other side, staring at him, and when he raised his head again to regain his strength. Lin Huai was already standing in front of him, staring at him expressionlessly as if looking at a dead object.
"Take a good look," he said. "Your crime."
As he said that, he opened the door of the most innermost toilet known as haunted. A third-year student in Class C, Yang Fan had his hands and feet trapped, and there were strangle marks on his neck. He was trapped here with his eyes wide open.
He had obviously been dead for a long time.
"... There are these two holes here, which were indeed left by previous students for peeping. He once tied a person's feet and put them in, and that person was slandered as a peeping pervert. Later, he tried To the sweetness, I locked that person in a locked teaching building on a rainy night, and the next day, that person fell down the stairs and died." Lin Huai said word by word, "Now a vengeful The evil spirit tied him here. No one saved him, just like no one saved another person in the past."
Yu Xingjian struggled to climb on the ground and tried to stand up several times. I don't know if it was because the floor tiles were too slippery, or because of the panic in his heart, he failed to get up several times, and could only slip on the ground in vain, like a dying spider.
"You locked them in the net, and now they're coming for you."
As he spoke, Lin Huai pulled out a diary from his bosom.
"This is Yan Xi's diary left in Empty Classroom 2." He whispered, "Want to know what you did?"
Yu Xingjian let out a wail that didn't sound like a human voice. He finally had enough strength to get up, stumbled, and flushed out of the toilet on the fourth floor.
escape! escape! leave here!
When he fled to the first floor, Lin Huai just followed him downstairs. He didn't mean to keep up with Yu Xingjian, but just looked at the sky with dark eyes.
sunny.
It was sunny again.
No one followed, Yu Xingjian finally opened the car with shaking hands. He waved the steering wheel, passed through the traffic flow and many buildings, crossed the traffic network extending in all directions, walked in one direction, and walked in many directions.
get out! Leave Yangshui!
He drove out, all the way north, just wanting to get as far away from Minghua as possible. All the scenery deformed outside his car window, and the moment he saw the toll booth, he showed ecstatic eyes.
He drove out of the tollbooth!
Then, stopped.
An uncontrollable fear filled his heart. He looked at the world outside the car window, dumbfounded, and fell into great and indescribable terror.
What appeared before his eyes was neither the highway nor the distance.
But a huge - black chasm!
Outside the gap like an abyss, there is absolute darkness. The whole Yangshui city is divided by the whole world with the toll booth as the boundary!
What he exists...is an isolated island!
Yangshui City, Minghua Middle School.
Lin Huai came to the fourth floor of the third teaching building again. The students were still in the classroom, and he came alone to the place where he first arrived, looking at the monthly schedule in front of him.
September, October, November, December.
January, February, March, April.
May, June, July, August.
September, October, November, December.
He tore off the ranking list one by one, and the ranking list was repeated one by one, repeating...
Three years!
The three-year high school ranking list is here! For three whole years, it was the same class with the same students...
Senior year!
The late autumn wind blows from the window. It started from the toll booth, crossed the entire Yangshui City, reached Lin Huai's ear, and blew a strand of his forehead hair.
He closed his eyes and sighed.
No one died, no one lived.
It's autumn, it's autumn again.
"From the very beginning of this dungeon, everything that happened in the past cannot be saved."
he said softly.
Minghua Middle School, Class B of the third year, three-person group.
The high-power air conditioner was still running, but Li Fan was completely out of the mood for class.
The lunch break finally came, and the students of Class B came out in a file. Large swaths of corpse spots have begun to appear on their bodies, and an unpleasant smell has even begun to spread in the air.
Li Fen, Xia Xingye, and Qiu Ran stayed in the classroom. Cao Aimin originally wanted to go to dinner, but when he saw Xia Xingye, the imperial heroine sitting in the front row, he decided to go up and talk to her.
"You..." He thought for a long time and said, "Your studs... are pretty."
Xia Xingye looked up from the book. He didn't seem to understand the reason for this person's visit at all. After a long time, he smiled very gently and beautifully: "Thank you."
He had never had such a soft tone, so soft that it was creepy. Cao Aimin couldn't read air at all, and continued to speak straight: "How much did you pay for it, isn't it expensive?"
"Not expensive." Xia Xingye whispered softly, "My brother gave it to me."
After speaking, he touched his earrings. The earrings shone under the light, faintly glowing red: "At that time, I just entered the game and I was very weak. He gave this thing to me..."
— Throwing it to me like throwing garbage, full of contempt and disdain.
The black mud full of heart spewed up at that moment. Through many memories, Xia Xingye seemed to see that day many years ago again.
'Stop following me. ' said the man.
'but I… '
'Just seeing you makes me feel, bored. '
The cold eyes seemed to be still fixed on his body, and after that moment, he seemed to see the overwhelming blood again.
'Sacrificing him is the best solution. ’ It was the same voice in the memory, ‘You are so… emotional. '
Ah.
"There is also a brother, the earrings that look so expensive are actually not expensive... It should be the eldest lady of a big family, maybe he has the attribute of brother control..." He murmured in his heart. After thinking about it, he tried to find what he liked again: "You and your brother must have a good relationship?"
"We are not brothers. He was brought back by my father, and I was brought back by my mother. We are a reorganized family. Strictly speaking, there is no blood relationship between us."
"Family reorganization, no blood relationship... Is it possible to legally perform orthopedics..." Cao Aimin's heart was full of alarms, and for a while he saw the future of his brother ntr with a green quilt on his head.
"There are many things to be resolved between me and him." Xia Xingye touched his earrings again, and the blood-colored earrings were as bright red as real on the porcelain-white earlobes, "But what I want to do most now Just... find him."
'What kind of plot is this that the eldest lady participates in the infinite stream dungeon just to find her own brother. Cao Aimin's eyes glowed, and he felt that there was hope for his strategy. He said to Xia Xingye expectantly: "You will find him, and I will help you..."
"I'd like to borrow your words." Xia Xingye smiled like water, "After I find him, the first thing I will do is..."
revenge.
However, there is no need to say this to this kind of npc.
He stopped talking, covering his face full of resentment, and finally raised a smiling face.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Xia Xingye asked softly.
Only then did Cao Aimin react from the sudden chill. He said sorry three times, and ran downstairs in panic.
Xia Xingye stared coldly at his back as he disappeared into the corridor, the corners of his mouth drooping with a smile, as if thinking of something extremely unpleasant. Qiu Ran's voice sounded from behind: "Hoshino..."
She hesitated and asked, "Are you in a bad mood? What happened?"
When looking at Qiu Ran, he was the Xia Xingye who always smiled in the past. "Okay, let's have a meeting," he asked.
"... This is really unbelievable. Just over half of the time, six people died, and only the last one remained."
"Where's Yu Xingjian?"
"He drove out of the school in a car and missed..."
'Yang Fan, unreasonably angry, furious. Feng Zilu, wasting food, overeating. Xia Xingye stared out the window, thinking, "There are still two left, greed and arrogance, and then they are all gathered..."
"Xingye," Qiu Ran asked him. Because of Xia Xingye's reliability in this dungeon, she has developed a habit of looking for him when she encounters troubles, "What should we do next... Yu Xingjian is gone, we can't catch up with him , if he was killed somewhere other than the school...wouldn't Yan Xi become a real evil spirit?"
"Damn it, we've been squatting in school for so long, but we couldn't prevent one death. What's going on?" Li Fen clenched his teeth angrily, "What's going on!"
Xia Xingye watched Li Fen get angry quietly, and said softly, "Then there is only one way out."
"A way?" Qiu Ran turned to him with eyes full of hope, "What way?"
So is Li Fen. Xia Xingye seemed to be the backbone of the entire team.
They believed in Xia Xingye, and they would follow all the methods he suggested.
Xia Xingye moved his pale lips lightly, and said in a breathy voice, "Kill Yan Xi."
"The current Yan Xi can't become an evil ghost. He has spent his strength to kill too many people, communicated with the outside world, and communicated with the living. He has been eroded by Yang Qi and is already very weak. We all have life-saving props , It is not difficult to kill him now."
"As long as we kill him and prevent him from becoming a terrible evil spirit, we can survive."
In the evening of the next day, it began to rain lightly, and Yu Xingjian returned to school.
For a whole day, he drove the car and searched through the city like a desperate headless fly. However, he searched all directions and all exits, only to find one final fact in despair——
Yangshui City where he was located was an isolated island separated by a black chasm.
He went from full of hope to being captured by despair. He searched for countless ways, cars, high-speed trains, planes... none of them could get him out of the city.
He seemed to be abandoned and imprisoned by the whole world, becoming an outcast of the world.
In boundless despair, he smoked a whole pack of cigarettes and ate a bowl of Lanzhou noodles. Gradually, his eyes began to turn red, and his teeth began to tremble.
From a long time ago, Yu Xingjian believed that my fate is up to me. This is also the reason why he came to Minghua Middle School and wanted to start over. Guilt and panic were overwhelmed by despair, and slowly, the instinct of survival swept towards his heart with anger.
'I just want to live! Want to live decently and well...why do I have to die here. '
'I didn't kill him, he committed suicide, how could I kill him? He wants revenge... he wants revenge, so why should he ask me for revenge? '
There is a kind of people who never reflect on themselves. In the face of other people's doubts, he will only continue to excuse himself, trying to find a reason that can make him feel at ease.
He thought of himself when he was a child, he was the pride of his parents; when he was a teenager, he was the king of children; he received the admission letter from a well-known normal university, and he was proud; he entered the best middle school in the city to teach, but was ruined because of a small negligence All careers will eventually be dispatched to this kind of place...
Now, he was about to die, and the cause of his death was...a cowardly, soft...boy!
'Is death a great thing? Is it amazing to be a ghost? ’ He thought viciously, ‘You can be forced to commit suicide when you’re alive, so why should you act like you’re awesome after you’re dead? ! '
'I don't want to die, I don't want to die! What should I do... Yes, back to Minghua Middle School, where it started, it will end... I don't believe it, I can't fight that ghost! '
He drove back to Minghua Middle School, but when he saw the familiar gate and erected flagpole of Minghua Middle School, his courage burst like soap bubbles.
'Can I beat it? ' Walking on the road, he kept asking himself, 'Can I beat that ghost? '
Thinking of the disappointed eyes of his parents, and the whisperings of his colleagues and relatives, he felt more courageous.
As long as Yan Xi is eliminated, the ghost hitting the wall he set up is removed, and he goes out from here, he can change the city and start again. The big deal is not to be a teacher, but to go to another profession... As long as he is still alive, everything can be done again. The so-called deaf students who were slapped in the face, the so-called Yan Xi... are just a few dusty stumbling blocks on the road when he looks back on his glorious days in his old age.
Their future was over, but his was not.
Just because he is still alive!
After returning to the teacher's office, he threw himself on the seat and let out a long breath.
Then, he saw a dark red notebook on the table that did not belong to him and that he had never seen before.
"what is this?"
He hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and opened his notebook. I saw a few lines of writing on the first page above in beautiful fonts.
"Seven Mysteries on Campus"
"AKA The Seven Deadly Sins"
If Lin Huai was here, he would definitely be able to recognize the handwriting on it, which was exactly the same as the future diary he saw on the first day of school.
But he is not here.
"Volume One: Laziness."
"Volume Two: Jealousy."
"Volume Three: Lust."
"Volume Four: Rage."
"Volume Five: Gluttony."
"Book Six: Greed."
Chapter by chapter... Yu Xingjian read page by page. At first, he could see very quickly, ten lines at a glance, but later, he could see more and more slowly, slower and slower.
This is the story of a bullied teenager taking revenge on everyone, every way of dying...all sins...
It is exactly the same as the incredible one he saw in school!
Falling into the water, hanged, crushed to death, suffocated, poisoned...
Fall from the sky.
After reading his own chapter, Yu Xingjian's tense spirit finally reached its limit!
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha-"
He laughed loudly, and then said viciously: "Want to make me step on the ground? Then come!"
Extreme panic and complex emotions have made his spirit tend to lose control. He let out an inhuman cry and scratched his hair.
Then, he dropped the notebook and rushed towards the hallway in the book where he landed on the flagpole with his foot.
He dropped the notebook on the table casually, and with the wind blowing outside the window, it was slowly flipped to the next chapter.
"Volume Seven: Arrogance."
It was supposed to belong to the original jumping off a building, but it was left in the last chapter.